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Ghanaian Pressure Group Alliance For Accountable Governance (AFAG) Holds Demonstration In Accra

November 12, 2014

In an interview with the press, Arnold Boateng, General Secretary of AFAG, urged all Ghanaians to come out and join the protest in order to send a message to the president and the nation’s leaders. “If we don’t come out in our numbers to put the right message to the President, we may end up in a gargantuan pit,” he told reporters.

The Alliance for Accountable Governance (AFAG), a pressure and advocacy group in Ghana, is currently demonstrating against corruption, economic hardship and poor governance in the nation’s capital Accra. The demonstration has been dubbed ‘Aagbe Wͻ’ which means “they are killing us” in the local Ga language.

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In an interview with the press, Arnold Boateng, General Secretary of AFAG, urged all Ghanaians to come out and join the protest in order to send a message to the president and the nation’s leaders.

“If we don’t come out in our numbers to put the right message to the President, we may end up in a gargantuan pit,” he told reporters.

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‘Aagbe Wͻ’ is one of many protests that various groups have organized across the country in the last few months. In October, 12 labor unions underwent an indefinite strike to speak against the misappropriation of Tier-2 pension funds. The unions asked that the government and the National Pensions Regulatory Authority (NPRA) transfer funds currently held at the central bank to their own selected trusts for management. According to the unions, the government had begun to tamper with the Tier-2 pension funds although government officials denied this.

There have also been protests against bad governance by Ghanaian groups across the world including one by a group calling itself Ghanaians Against Bad Governance (GABG) in Washington DC.

AFAG has on countless occasions called on the government to tackle the problem of what they called an excessive abuse and misuse of state funds. They have also challenged President Mahama to resign.